!!!BULLETIN: HOMICIDE ON TYLER STREET @ PLEASURE AVENUE!!! … NEW STATE ED GUIDELINES DICTATE POLICY AND FURTHER EVISCERATE LOCAL CONTROL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
ADD 1 FRIDAY 6/19: At 9 a.m., THE PLANET received this from the Pittsfield Police Department:
On Thursday June 18th 2026 at approximately 8:09pm, multiple Pittsfield Police Department (PPD) officers responded to an area at the intersection of Pleasure Avenue and Tyler Street for a reported shooting. Dispatch was alerted by both a multiple-round ShotSpotter activation as well as 911 callers. Responding officers located two men who had sustained gunshot wounds and both were transported to Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) by Emergency Medical Services personnel.
One victim, a 38-year-old Pittsfield resident, was treated for a non-life-threatening injury and was later released. The second shooting victim, a 29-year-old Pittsfield man, died from his injuries at BMC despite the efforts of first responders and hospital staff. This incident is currently under investigation by members of the Pittsfield Police Department in conjunction with personnel from the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office and other assisting agencies. At this time investigators believe that the shooting was a targeted act. Anyone who wishes to report information is asked to contact the Pittsfield Police Department at 413-448-9700. Information can also be provided anonymously by texting PITTIP and your message to TIP411 (847411.) No further information will be provided at this time.
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 19-21, 2026) — You don’t need THE PLANET to know that Bitchfield public schools are mired in a deep muddy that makes the LeBrea tarpits look like hippety-hop to the barber shop. Drugs, sexual predation, classroom chaos, incompetent administration, and more have brought public education to a new low, scraped clean through the bottom in corruption’s endless Backrooms.
This has been a Mayor Lumpy-Queen Latifah-Sochol Cummittee coproduction, with one billion bucks — BILLION — spent in a decade on this flop. It makes all-time movie busts Heaven’s Gate and Waterworld look like Jaws and Star Wars. Think of it: a billion dollars to run the schools into the ground.
Some highlights:
- Former administrators such as the one who allegedly showed her poontang to students and as “punishment” got six-figure non-disclosure agreement.
- Led by a shaky Lumpy, the Bitchfield Sochol Cummittee has kept the lid on the “independent” report on the PHS scandals. Even the redacted one. Nothing to see there, folks.
- Accused drug pedlar Da Dancin’ Dean. We hear he’s singing like a canary to get a plea.
- Supt. Queen Latifah and Lumpy are so terrified of the angry villagers that they were mighty scarce during the recent plethora of graduations. Presence by noted absence seems like admission of guilt.
Amidst all this, one wonders what the sheepskins mean that those fresh-faced young people ended up with after four years of Romper Room. Ask colleges and business owners in The Dreaded Private Sector about the worth of local high school diplomas. They’ll give you an earful, like the general manager at one of the city’s large supermarkets, who told THE PLANET, “They can’t do simple math, they can’t follow simple instructions, and they’re unreliable. We just can’t get the help.”
Speaking of young people, THE PLANET’s recent assignment at 29 Palms Marine Corps Combat Training Center showed us a crop we would be proud to employ. We can’t get into the details of our work for the Marines, but we were around combat units that knew how to solve complex problems, could think both strategically and tactically, could follow and issue orders, and showed absolute reliability. All we can say is “Hoo-rah!”
THE PLANET at work, 29 Palms Marine Combat Training Base.
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Now that voters canned MCAS in 2024, the masterminds at the K-12 Statewide Graduation Council have come up with final recommendations about getting quality back into public schools. Remember, though, that these same kind of geniuses gave us Ed Reform and MCAS in 1993.
How’d that work out?
The Healey Administration talked up the report as if Charlton Heston himself had come down from Mt. Sinai with stone tablets. Of course, the local daily known as the Boring Broadsheet wrote about it with gushing praise. Happy days are here again, according the to the BB.
THE PLANET, however, won’t give such safe quarter to what has been for 33 years the enemy of local control and quality education.
The state recommends four requirements for graduation:
- Completion of the statewide MassCore curriculum.
- End-of-course testing assessments designed, administered, and graded not locally but by the state. This further erodes any whiff of local control over schools.
- Plans for the future through the MyCAP (My Career and Academic Plan) online portal.
- What’s called a “capstone” project or a portfolio.
“We’ve spent the last 18 months listening to students, families, educators, and employers about what young people need to succeed,” Gov. Healey said. “These recommendation raise the bar while expanding opportunity, helping ensure every student has access to the coursework, real-world experiences, and skills they need to build a successful future.”
Right.
The state said as much back in 1993 then did little more than continue to throw money at a problem that simply wouldn’t go away.
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Naturally, the Mass. Teachers Association called the recommendations “outdated” and a “top-down approach to policymaking.” The MTA claims the new plan “does not respect the professionalism of educators.”
Hearing that, THE PLANET might reconsider our views. We’ve learned after a generation of being FORCED to join the union in order to do our professorial work that anything the MTA is against, we are for.
Here’s the kicker. Instead of immediate implementation to a program that’s been in the works for a year and a half, the new standards won’t go into effect until the 2031-32 school year.
Why put off today what you can’t do for five years?
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“School’s out forever” — Alice Cooper.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Public Education is a government system of social stratification based mostly on economic class and social status that produces young adults who face a life in the underclass, working-class, or if they are able and willing to succeed in a career, the middle-class family structure.
The problem with public education is it is a bureaucracy that is really about social control. Children and young adults alike have to endure decades of their lives dealing with negative reinforcements that produces bullies, indoctrinated rote so-called thinking, and and adult educators that support corrupt public unions for their own financial benefit that cost taxpayers billions of dollars per academic year.
The last thing public education wants to do is have the masses of Have-NOTS understand that the bureaucracy is using them to serve the inequitable interests of the financial, corporate and ruling elites that produce an Oligarchy whereby all but a gain in net income of an average of one-dime per working hour per year every year since the early-1970’s have gone to the super wealthy – Trickle down economics is a LIE.
To be clear, children go to public schools and they experience social conflicts. Why? The answer is that social conflicts are a “divide and conquer” tactic to keep the masses of Have-NOTS from questioning the authoritarian-structured bureaucratic system.
I am in my early-50’s in mid-2026. I have given years of thought in my life whereby I am always reacting to the bureaucratic system that socially stratifies society. I see myself as a survivor, while others have written that I see myself as a victim. Others have written that I am “Marxist Melle”.
All I want is for everyone to have a chance in life. I believe in the “Big 3” needs that support middle-class families and strong communities, which are Housing, Healthcare, and EDUCATION. If “Jon Melle” writing about these subjects makes me look like I am acting like a victim or a Marxist, then so be it. That is how I see the FAILED system of government in the 21st Century.
JM, you write this, “I believe in the “Big 3” needs that support middle-class families and strong communities, which are Housing, Healthcare, and EDUCATION,” and then question why people (including myself) have called you “Marxist Melle.”
What you described is Communism, or Marxism.
The US government should not provide deadbeats, lay-abouts, and illegal aliens, free healthcare and housing. This is where an education and gainful employment come into play.
The US Government does mandate by law, that all US Citizens are entitled to a free education. It’s your choice what you want to do with that education.
Learn the 3 R’s and better your chances to succeed in life. Or, f*ck around in class and worrying about posting TikTok videos of your new dance moves, instead of learning grammar, and be destined to a life of government assistance?
With that high school education, a person then has many choices: college, the US Military, work, or live at home with mommy and daddy and do nothing and bitch about the world.
If you disagree that your describing Communism, I’d love to hear your counter argument that it’s not.
**Keep in mind, I also want to know where you would come up with the finances for these free houses and health care programs for all. Houses, and building them, certainly isn’t cheap.
Is it bad enough yet?
Public education has lead to graduates who are unable to make change, read a ruler or read.
Any other professional , giving such dismissal service, would be sued into bankruptcy.
Yet the” Agents with Agendas” protect their voting block, for political power.
Go back to the 3 R’s,and stop the indoctrination.
Allow or mandate school classroom cameras, let the citizens, see what is happening in the classroom. The problem will resolve itself,in months.
Only benefit of Covid hoax, was parents were able to see the dysfunction perpetrated upon their children,in the classroom.
The cost is minimal, nothing in classroom is subject to privacy.
Project Veritas v Rollins .
Sunlight is the best disinfectant..
6/19/26@4:00am
Tom
TOM
Yes. Such performance in the Dreaded Private Sector would be cause for immediate dismissal and perhaps legal action. In Bitchfield? Ho hum.
Dan
Another update;..
Mass Potentials reading education bill, will hopefully be passing in house and senate,this week.
Elimination of three guesses reading instruction, and going back to tried and true phonics
Call reps and senators, to request they vote yes.
Notably our present representatives and senators, being in teachers unions pocket, failed to make their citizens aware. Wasting time on illegal alien issues.
The reason for guessing, is because illegals children, are so uneducated, they can’t read, stalling the progress of legal citizens.
Suggest residents in Shooting galleries of shitsfield, sleep with feet toward outside walls. So the wound survivability, will be increased for the innocent.
The street war is just beginning, with removal of some of crews hitters. The novices are bucking for position, as the professionals are prosecuted.
Welcome to the Wild West.
Dan
Did Timmy the fixer, explain the reality of his stupidity. On your recent visit?
Now Berkshires , will be experiencing ill conceived murder, which endangers innocent civilians.
Timmy got a headline, costing the populations safety .
Anyone with a modicum of common sense, understood the consequences.
Let the criminals kill each other, as long as citizens aren’t endangered.
Typical elitist, Timmy has no idea, what he is doing. But the propaganda parrot and fake news, gaslight the useful idiots, into his virtues.
Seeing the pattern yet?
I told your readers it was coming months ago. Distracted Attorneys office , is too busy playing politics and protecting predator colleagues .
6/19/26@11:30am
Tom
When you see the Test Scores of the students, you know the Teaching Grifters Union, is the enemy of Education, but the politicians fear putting the students before the voting bloc of those involved in the education system more. After all , they provide all the votes needed for them to stay in their elected
positions.
Got stopped at the light in front of phs recently. A girl with a backpack comes across from the side opposite the school and heads up the school steps to the building. And, hard to miss, is that she is wearing very short shorts with a bit of her bare butt cheeks catching a little sunshine.
Perhaps the superintendent might want to tighten up the dress code, unless there is pole dancing classes, as such landscapes might be distracting to one trying to do algebra calculations.
Or maybe they are trying to improve the absentee rate, which I understand is appalling even for Pittsfield.
After reading your post Gimme, I had to chime in.
That young lady you mentioned in your post is in step 3 of her future, as a pole-dancer or an OnlyFans nude model.
Step 4 is when she reaches “The Sheppard’s Pie” level. To achieve that level, you must be a degenerate, pedophile, or both, and enjoy sharing your pu$$y pictures with all-especially juvenile black males.
The state recommends four requirements for graduation:
Bitchfield Pubic Scohol’s, Da Dancin’ Dean, Lavonte Wiggins, is a perfect example of this four-step plan, with a trip to the penitentiary almost all but assured.
Markus
“Tyranny of the majority”
The French philosopher/ historians name escapes me, speaker Newt, exposed myself to it through professor Wood.
Who recently passed. .
6/18)26@11:30am
Tom
GIMME
Bitchfield middle and high schools have a well-articulated dress code … but the administration pays no attention to it. Kids are dressed inappropriately for classroom, and learning cannot take place.
Billions spent yet the students can’t do basic math or follow simple instructions, but ask them about their genders, pronouns, and the far left agenda and you will get an earful. This is what the schools have been pushing instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic. The Mass. Teachers Association is a joke when you realize that giving a real education to students is no longer their priority and hasn’t been for some time.
Spot-on, PAT.
^*DING* *DING* *DING*^ Congratulations! You win today’s prize for both observation
and understanding.
I believe democRATS have purposely dumbed down ejubacation purposely, in an effort to keep their flock dumb and obedient.
How else would the democRATS be able to pull off January 6, couldn’t find the J6 pipe bomber, an illegal alien invasion of the country, giving US tax dollars to illegal aliens via: gift cards, cell phone, rent, medical coverage, living expenses; leaving billions of dollars of military grade weapons in an Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, just to touch the tip of the ice burg, and their only answer is “Orange Man bad.”
Oh, I can’t leave out Meanwhile’s tried and true, “the Epstein files.”
This goes back to my original post and the heart of Dan’s post.
When asked by multiple posters on The Planet why the Autopen Administration didn’t go after President Trump with this “Epstein evidence,” considering the democRATS tried to assassinate him and charge him with the Lindbergh kidnapping, he gives a nonsensical answer about Trump raising the cost of gas, living, and anything else to try and divert away from the original question.
Intelligent people use fact-based arguments.
Morons, aka-democRATS ignore facts and rely simply on emotion as the basis of their arguments: “fighting for democracy,” “It’s racist/Islamophobic/homophobic”, and the best, “No Kings.”
Thanks, MARK. “fighting for democracy,” “It’s racist/Islamophobic/homophobic”, and the best, “No Kings.” Sums it up perfectly.
Lumpy and company aren’t taking care of Bitchfield’s taxpayers issues now that exist because they know the next mayor and company won’t give a shit. The next ones will have their own self inflicted problems to resolve.
Pittsfield has the 2nd highest Commercial Tax Rate in Massachusetts; Holyoke is 1st.
Pittsfield’s Residential Tax Rate and Fees are a lot higher than its peer small cities.
Pittsfield outspends its peer small cities by tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year.
Pittsfield AVOIDS a FORENSIC AUDIT like the plague.
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds, pummels, pulverizes, punishes people’s purses.
Great new entertainment in the City of Shitsfield. Last week it was take your family to the Boys & Girls Club on Melville Street, but, becareful not to get stabbed. Last night take your family to the new Arcade and then out for ice cream, you can witness a drive by shooting killing one and injurying another. The police department states these are “targeted attacks”. Has the police department ever heard of mis-fires or ricoshet bullets? What if a stray bullet hit a little child waiting to get their ice cream cone? Do they think the taxpayers are stupid? What a ignorant comment to put in a press release.
Worse of all the taxpayers never hear one word out of the Mayor or City Councilors about the out of control crime in the City, especially in broad daylight. Bet they all will be at the Pride Celebration this weekend though!! So disgusted with these do nothing so called elected officials. It a crime what we pay them and what we get in return.
No objectively reasonable person would be proud of Pittsfield. It’s a shithole of a city, plain and simple, and has been going down the shiter for years.
Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski work for their hard-earned money, dutifully pay taxes in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and then they read about a politically connected hack in Boston who may receive a large public pay raise of $36,000 that would add to his already 6-figure public pay plus perks for life.
The measure was recently passed by the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, and it needs to be voted on in the Massachusetts State Senate chamber, and then signed into state law by Governor Maura Healey.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/18/massachusetts-lawmakers-suffolk-register-deeds-salary-budget-proposal
It must be so nice to loved by the likes of career politicians such as State Representatives John Barrett III, Tricia Farley-Bouvier, and Leigh Davis, and so on.
If the career politicians would like to give me an extra $36,000 public pay raise per year, then by all means, vote for the “Jon Melle” public pay raise plus public perks for life fund.
Massachusetts politics is a one political party state that benefits the political hacks.
Here’s some digging to do, Planet.
Word on the street is the deceased is the informant in the Levante Wiggins drug case.
The second victim is the best friend of AngelNotAngle.
Such a small town.
If true, that’s certainly an interesting development. … to say the least.